In the study, there will be iMac/iTunes/Drobo DAS backup/desktop audio that shares a common central iTunes library with a living room QNAP NAS/Roon Server/main stereo system (a QNAP NAS isn't considered adequate for backup purposes). I guess the question is how to run a multi-room setup with a centralised library and backups. But then came confusion as there were so many internet threads about setting up Logitech Media Server or Minimserver etc on the QNAP NAS and lack of clarity whether this entailed a wholesale migration out of iTunes (with the library being exported into a different library software and catalogue system) or whether it still co-exists with iTunes. I did find the Roon guide to migrating/integrating a pre-existing iTunes. Thank you once again for putting up with grampa's questions effectively asking what an "email" is. No, you can continue to use your QNAP NAS as a NAS and run other apps that Roon may not do. When you have both the NAS and Roon Nucleus, Roon will be expecting you to define a network library which is your QNAP NAS. Roon requires oomph when doing the indexing and fetching meta data, something that a NAS may not be able to manage. Given you do not have the Roon Nucleus yet, you should try it first and see whether you can survive it. So does that mean you shouldn't set up the QNAP NAS drive as a server as well to avoid conflict with the Roon Nucleus also functioning as a server? Or can/should you still install server software like Minimserver, Logitech Media Server etc on the QNAP NAS drive because they offer things that Roon Server doesn't eg internet radio, a method of cataloguing music files (Minimserver)? Does that mean you have to set up QNAP just as a simple external hard drive without it functioning as a server (using it purely for external storage since Roon Nucleus has little storage capacity)?
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